2. Adolf Hitler

3. How Did Hitler Rise to Power?
Economy was weak because of stock market crash and WWI debt
Germans’ confidence was low as they lost the war and were blamed for it
Lack of confidence in democratic government
Desperate for better life and improvements in country

4. What Kind of Government Did Hitler Establish?
He changed Germany into a one-party dictatorship
Abolished all individual freedoms
Organized the police power necessary to enforce Nazi policies
Used terror to achieve his goals
Lured by wages and comradeship, thousands of jobless men became Nazi Storm Troopers

5. Why Did Hitler and the Nazis Hate the Jews?
Hitler was obsessed with ideas about race.
Believed all of history was a fight between races, which would end in the triumph of the superior Aryan race.
Considered the Jews a race whose goal was world domination and were a hindrance to Aryan dominance.
Pronounced that his race, what he considered the “master race” must remain pure in order to one day take over the world.
The ideal "Aryan" was blond, blue-eyed, and tall.

6. Death of Hitler

7. What does the word Holocaust mean?
(hol·o·caust): n -   
1. Great destruction resulting in the extensive loss of life, especially by fire
2. Greek word meaning burnt whole or consumed by fire
HOLOCAUST (FIRE)
Holocaust – 11 million people were killed
Term comes from a Greek word that means burnt whole or consumed by fire
The term Holocaust refers to the specific period in history dating from 1933 – 1945 and not to any other mass murder or genocide.

8. A Total of 6 million Jews killed (1.5 million children under 12)
How many lives were lost during the Holocaust?
AUSTRIA 35%
POLAND 91%
USSR 36%
NORWAY 45%
BELGIUM 45%
LUXEMBOURG 55%
A Total of 6 million Jews killed (1.5 million children under 12)
ESTONIA 44%
ROMANIA 84%
HUNGARY 74%
YUGOSLAVIA 81%
BOHEMIA 60%
How did they manage to get together all these Jews to kills them?
How did they kill them when they had them?
To begin with there were concentration camps.
LATVIA 84%
NETHERLANDS 71%
LITHUANIA 85%
GERMANY 36%
FRANCE 22%
GREECE 87%

9. What is Anti-Semitism?
Jews do not share the Christian belief that Jesus is the Son of God.
The Church taught that Jews were responsible for Jesus' death.
Jews were blamed for the defeat in the War.
Many Germans were poor and unemployed and wanted someone to blame.
Germans turned on the Jews, many of whom were rich and successful in business.

10. What is Propaganda, and how is it still used today?
Propaganda is biased information designed to shape public opinion and behavior.
Connotation?
Brainwashing, falsehood, manipulation
What is propaganda:
2017:

11. Modern Day Propaganda

12. Modern Day Propaganda

13. How Did the Nazi Party Convince the German People to Hate and Eventually Allow the Holocaust?
Took control of all forms of communication in Germany and held rallies.
Viewpoints threatening to Nazi beliefs were eliminated from all media.
Any person who was not loyal to the Nazi Party was persecuted.
Textbooks taught students blind obedience to the party, love for Hitler, and anti-Semitism.

14. How Did the Nazis Know Who Was Jewish?
Census in 1933 had “race” as a category
Their clothes and practices made them look different
Synagogues and temples kept birth, marriage, and death records
Neighbors/friends turned on them so they could claim rewards
I.D. cards labeled Jews with a “J”

15. What is the “Final Solution” and How Was It Implemented?
"Final Solution" was the Nazi plan to exterminate the Jewish people and was implemented in stages.

16. What Were the Conditions in the Concentrations Camps?
Concentration camps were forced-labor camps where prisoners were literally worked to death.
Crammed into windowless, non-insulated barracks, up to 500 in one building, inmates were jammed against one another.
A bucket was the only form of waste control.
Food was scarce (watery soup with rotten vegetables, molded bread)
Malnutrition made prisoners easy targets for disease and dehydration.

17. Transporting

18. Prisoners arriving at the camps…
PRISONERS ARRIVING AT CAMP
Train whistle sound automatically plays.
Trains were greeted by a Nazi commander, who held the power of life or death.
Commanders would instruct the soldiers how to separate people as they were taken off the train.
Suitcases taken away and valuables confiscated.
Prisoners arriving at the camps…

19. Elie Wiesel during the Holocaust – Author/narrator of Night.
Former prisoners of the "little camp" in Buchenwald stare out from the wooden bunks in which they slept three to a "bed."

20. Many people starved to death, or they chose to stop eating.

21. Not all children were immediately killed
Not all children were immediately killed. Some were used in medical experiments and sexually assaulted.

22. OLDER MAN WITH TATTOO
This is a photo of a survivor, showing the tattoo he received while at Auschwitz.

23. Even the very young… YOUNG BABY WITH TATTOO
Notice that this baby has a tattoo.
Because most children were immediately killed, it is likely this baby was part of a study that used twins for experiments preformed by Nazi doctors.
Even the very young…

24. A MAP OF THE CONCENTRATION CAMPS AND DEATH CAMPS USED BY THE NAZIS

25. Use your legal sized paper to draw out a Holocaust timeline
Use your legal sized paper to draw out a Holocaust timeline. We will fill it in as we go.

26. Night

27. Night by Elie Wiesel Autobiographical, memoir
Focus on observation - describes an event that the writer witnessed firsthand.

28. During the time of the Jewish annihilation, there were many families that were being shattered and torn apart. One of these families were the Wiesels’. The family consisted of Elie, his father Schlomo, his mother Sarah, and his three sisters, Hilda, Tzipora, Bea.
Elie’s mother, Sarah, and sister, Hilda.
Schlomo, Elie’s father.
Elie at age 15.

29. In 1986, Elie was awarded one of the highest honors in the world, The Nobel Peace Prize.

31. Holocaust Remembrance
Israel Pauses
Holocaust Remembrance